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TO THE PEOPLE OF NE\y ]\IEXICO. 



Las Cruces, N. M., Dec. IG, 1864. 

Fellow Citizens: 

I ha,ve felt very reluctant to address jou in tins public man- 
ner, even on a matter of the greatest importance to jonrselves ; 
but a belief that I owe it to you as a duty, impels me to this 
course; and I beg that you -will accept this reason as my apolog}'. 

Doubtless you have all seen, in the public prints, a controversy 
going on — in -which I have had no part — with reference to the 
Navajo Indians. As it has been my fortune, under Providence, 
to have been instrumental in the removal of this formidable 
tribe — at least, to have formed certain plans leading to such a 
result, which plans were efficiently executed, mainly by troops 
raised in your own territory — perhaps it may not be out of place 
in !no to set forth some of the principal reasons which had an 
influence in shaping ray course from the beginning, to this end. 
These reasons being understood by yourselves, you will be able 
the better to judge whether or not the action based upon them, 
has been wise. 

From time immemorial these Indians had subsisted upon the 
flocks and herds of your fathers ; had, times without number, 
even in one single hour, reduced whole families from comparative 
wealth to poverty. Thoir ravages had impoverished not only 
your country, but these barbarians had murdered your people ; 
had slain your fathers — your brothers — 3^our children ; or had 
carried many of them into a horrible and hopeless captivity, un- 
til there was hardly a home in the land which was not filled with 
mourning and with hearts made desolate. 

Your ancestors, under the Spanish Government, made many 
campaigns against them, and many treaties of peace with them. 
But the Indians soon forgot the terror which had been ins]>ircd 






I)j til© preseiu:® of the troops in their country, and soon fo/g>'>i 
tbo obligations to which thev had pledged themselves, in eacU. 
successive treaty. 

Then came other campaigns and other treaties, under the Mex- 
ican Republic, and you all know with what result. Again the 
Navajoes forgot the punifhment they had received, and, over uud 
over again, broke their treaties, as of old. 

After the annexation of New Mexico- to the United States, by 
the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, the troops fro-ra tlie north com- 
menced their campaigns, with a&hig}> hopes of a permanent success 
fts your fathers had entertained. First Doniphan his, then Washing- 
ton, then Sumner, then Bonneville, then Miles, then Canby : all of 
them of our best men. It is true they gained many advantages, but 
concluded, each one his campaign, by the inevitable treaty. And 
what now w-as the i-esult ? You can all answer for mc, because this 
brings matters down to your OAvn times. Why, the treaties were bro- 
ken, and, on some occasions, even before the troops had been entirely 
•withdrawn from the Navajo countvy. Navajo Faith, like Punic 
Faith, became, at length, a scoff and a jeer. The Navajoes them- 
pelves, froni long experience in this matter, liad learned to see 
that the prudent way to end a ci^mpcjign against tlvem, was to 
come in wuth a white flag and say they wanted peace; say 
that the murders and robberies had been committed by some of 
their bad young men ; th^^t this thing should not occur again ; 
that if our people would only smoke and be friends, and make a. 
treaty, this time it should be kept most sacredly ! Over, and 
over, and over again, this w^as done. Fellow citizens, is not all this 
the truth? 1 appeal to any one man t>f you all, if one singlo 
point, thus far stated, can be denied. 

Well, now^, in finding myself in command of tl>e- troo])3 within 
your borders, it naturally occurred to me that, to cnre this great- 
evil from which your territory had been so long a prey, some new 
remedy must be adopted. You knov/ that I had lived amongst 
you for several years, upon a forme? occasion, and had had many 
frpportuniiies, not only of learning somewhat of the geography 
'if New Mexico, but of knowing some little of your Indian diffi- 
eullies. AVhen 1 came- here this time, it not only became my pro- 



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fess'ioiial "business, ])ut my bounden duty, not only to yonv?elTC'S, 
hnl to tlie government, to devise some plan ^vhich might, witk 
liod's blessing, forever bring these troubles to an end. 

In a short time aUtf^mj arrival, some eighteen of the Navajo 
l^hiefs came to sec me, and said they wanted to make a treaty of 
peace. I told them it vras unnecessary for us to go through with 
the fjr?n of making a treaty ; that if their people committed no 
5iiurders nor robberies on our people, there would be peace without 
any treaty. That we were not children to be beguiled any more 
h\ their promises ; that we had learned n«t to believe those prom- 
ises, and did not care to hear them. That hereafter we would 
judge of their sincerity solely by their acts. That if they cora- 
tnitted an}- more mnrders and robberies, as surely as that the sun 
slionc, so surely would the troops come and, th.is time, make & 
war upon them wliich they would long remember. 

They said they never had been refissed tfec making of a treaty 
before; but returned to their country, promising to do the best 
they coukl to keep their people from perpetrating any more acts 
of hostility. "What Avas the result of these promises '! Why, in 
less than six week's time, murdei'S and robberies were committed 
on every hand. Finally the spring of 1868 caxne, when, having 
ascertained that a gi^eat many Navajoes claimed to belong to a 
peace party, word was sent that all who did not wish to be expos- 
ed to the perils of war, must come in and go down to the Bosquo 
Redondo, where they should be fed and cared for, until those who 
remained hostile should be subdiied. That we could not discrim- 
inate between the innocent ar^I the guilty sinless tSiis were done ; 
that unless those who claimed to be our friends would thus sepa- 
rate themselves from our acknowledged enemies, we should be 
obliged to consider all we encountered as enemies, onco the Avar 
began, when on themselves would rest the consequences, and not 
upon us. The reply they made was. that not a Navajo wouhl 
come in under such conditions. Word was again 5ent|.to^theiu. to 
consider the matter more m.aturely ; that the peace party should 
have until the 20th of the following July, in Avhich to make up 
tfif^ir minds and come in ; that the door should remain open until 
tviat day. AftcrArard?.. it would be forever elo>ed, and the war 



WiiiilJ li(;gin in eaiTiest. Still, not one Navajo eanio. They did 
not believe that we we7'c in earnest, and on that day, as had heeu 
promised, tlie war began. 

A force, composed mainly of your own people, was sent against 
them, and underwent the greatest toil and privation in their pur- 
suit. On the inarch, whether by night or by day, whether ever 
rugged mountains, through deep vahons, or across dry and dusty 
plains, these gallant children of New Mexico pursued their hered- 
itary foe, with a tenacity of purpose which never relaxed ; with 
a fortitude that never gave way under hunger, or thirst, or fa- 
tigue, or the vicissitudes of the seasons. Every man seemed an- 
imated with the resolution to repay two centuries of accumulated 
wrongs ; to let their treacherous and implacable cnQmy frvl that, 
finally, an avenger was on his path, vrho was inflexible in his de- 
terminations. Never did soldiers have a better cause, and never 
did soldiers acquit themselves with more of genuine heroism. 
These troops went out from under your own roofs, and encoun- 
tered all this toil, this exposure, these dangers, for you, and for 
your children, and your children's children. I am sure you 
do not really and seriously propose any course which will loolc, 
on your part, like a want of appreciation of their motives, of 
their. toils and exposure, or a want of gratitude for all the good 
they accomplished. 

What were the results of all these labors and all this fighting ? 
Little by little, a few Navajoes were captured here, a small band 
there, and, by and by, some began voluntarily to surrender, until 
we had on our hands quite a large number of prisoners. Wo 
coiikl not feed them in the Navajo countrj- — that was impossible. 
Nor had we troops to guard them there, even though we could 
have furnished them with subsistence. '\\''e could not, as chris- 
tians, kill them ; we could not see them perish by starvation ; v/o 
could not turn them loose, for the war itself was still raging ; and 
we had had nearly two hundred years of the making of treaties, 
wiijfh liad been broken almost as soon as made. It was clearly 
fii'in that, even admitting it would have been good policy to place 
the ciiptivo Navajoes upon a Reservation in their own country, 
there could be found no one piece of irrigable and fertile land, 



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largo enough for such Reservtuiun, v.ithin all its boundaries. 
Besides, the enormous cost of land-transportation for stores, not 
onlj for the Indians, but for the large military establishment 
■which would have to be kept up to guard thern, could not and 
would not be incurred by the Government, for the maintainance 
of any such a system, in a region so very distant from the source 
of supply. But such a plan vras not admitted to be a good one, 
of itself, even when freed from these fatal objections. For in 
that country, so familiar to every man, woman and child of the 
Navajo nation — so formidable from its huge mcsas^ its rugged 
mountains, its deep forests, its labyrinthine canons — ten times 
the number of troops now within this Department could not pre- 
vent the Indians, by ones and twos, from leaving such Reseiva- 
tion whenever it should please them to do so. Thus the whole 
system would crumble avsay and fall through, as totally imprac- 
ticable. What, then, would have been the result? Why, still 
n)ore murders, more robberies ; then another war and — then what? 
why, of course, another treaty; and so on forever, in that inevita- 
ble circle, which had become as fatal to the prosperity of New 
Mexico, as the shirt of Nessus to Hercules. 

In 1852 and in 1854-, and again early in the spring of I8G0, 
it had been my fortune to visit the Bosque Redoudo, on the Pecos 
River, and I had seen that the extent of rich bottom lands there, 
were capable of growing crops sufilcient to support a large popu- 
hition ; and that broad plains spread out ou every hand, which 
were covered with f:ne pasturage. Here, then, the Indians could 
be brought ; lierc they could be fed with comparative cheapness ; 
here was irrigable land enough, lying in one body, eventually to 
supply all their wants, and here, too, were broad plains, over 
which they could not pass and, at the same time, elude pursuit 
and recapture. I feel justified in saying that thtre is not another 
.spot of vacant land, between the Pecos River and the Colorado 
of the West, which possesses any two of these essential elements 
for a Reservation, much less, all of ihcss eL-mt7ilr.. Here, 
then, at the Bosoue JJedondo, it was resolved to yw.cQ all the 
captive Navajocs, as is shown by my letter to the V, ar Depart- 
ment, dated early in September, 18(Jo, a copy of \y\i\Ai is hereunto 



*pp<:iidoel for Your consiiU-ration. 'JHiis then, bpcanic ■what hnfl 
^jeori called a policy, and tliis policy has been fully endorsed and 
adopted by tlic Gt'neral fiOTcrnnient as its own, und a determina- 
tion has been expressed by those who control sucli matters at 
Wasliington, to give this experiment a full and fair trial. 

Now, fellow citi.'ien.s, it is reported that there are people living 
amongst you, who are not natives of the soil ; who are said not 
to have a h.orn or a hoof at stock to lot^e ; who have no perma- 
nent interest in your Territory; who, neither for themselves nor 
for their diiidren, have a care whctlicr, or not, New Mexico ever 
shall l>«come a powerful and wealthy state ; who have lost no 
friend or relative by the bloody hand of the Navajo ; who have 
no abiding place h.crc, except for a season ; bi^l ic/to have cn^ 
(deavored, and ivho ivill endravoi\ for purposes of their OAvn, 
to persuade 3'oa that this is all wrong. I pray that you may not 
Ijo deluded by any of their sophistries against what nr.ist, on re- 
flection, appear to be substantial truths, which no cunning hand 
can veil from your clear perception, if you will but look toward 
them. 

We have seen various plans tried for the subjugation and paci- 
Scation of the Navajoes, and all of them, up to the present time, 
have failed. This plan appeals to our reason as, logically, the 
best. It is as plain to us that it is the best, as that two and two 
jnako four. For !2iyself, and for the troops, I can safely say, 
we hai'o labored iu this cause and for this policy as being as cor- 
rect and as easily to be demonstrated as that siniple problem. 
And we rt^gard .-d! attempts to undo what has already been accom- 
plished, witJi so many sacriiices and at so great a cost, as not only 
wicked, bvt as an absurdity as great as an attempt would be to 
o(»nvinco you, iriv fellow citizens, that two and two make five. 
Such an attempt is a gross insult to the good sense of the people 
who have suffered so long and with so much sorrow. It is dan- 
gerous to all the present and prospective interests of this great 
territory. It is pernicious to the present safety of yourselves 
flud your property, as well as to the welfare of your children and 
their children, for years to come. This conviction is firmly rooted 
in mr m\\\A. and should I'e moz-c f^rmlv rooted in vours. for vou 



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are the parties cnrectly interested. Tben, wLen siicli gTfiTe emi" 
Bequencea, for good or for evil to vourselvcs and your posterity, 
depend on -what wc are now doing, or nvav be about to do, it io 
"U-ell to divest this question of all its robe» and look it 8-quuvely iu 
the face. Let na hasten slowly; and let us calmly consider a few 
of the principal pointa which are made by those vfbo profess to 
be adverse to the present policy. 

The A'*avajoes are ^^rizona India7zs. It is admitted that 
sonic of them hare resided on the western side of the imaginary 
line of longitude >vliich divides the two territories. But where 
did these Indians do their robbing and murdering ? ^Vliy, hei-e 
in New Mexico. You were the sufferers, not people of Ari- 
zona. What difference could it make to you, in point of fact, 
"VThether the Navajoes come from Arizona or from Missouri, so 
that they kill your brethren and rob your flocks, and so that, by 
confining them upon a Reservation, this killing and robbing shall 
forever cease ? 

The Bosque is your favorite pasture ground. Let me 
ask you, who ever kept a Hock of sheep at that point, ninety 
miles south-east of Anton Chico, and did not lose that flock? 
Can any of you name the owner and the time Avhen this was done ? 
Kow, the Navajoes have yielded up their luholc country, a coun- 
try larger than the State of Ohio, for the tew acres set apart for 
them upon the Pecos River — a country unsurpassed as a pastoral 
region, in the whole world. 

The tribe may rise and attack the people. Are they not 
upon an open plain, and embarrassed by their women and chil- 
dren, whom they love and whom they would not endanger 'i Could 
they move, or make one hostile demonstration without our knowl- 
edge? Would ten thousand men, women and chikh-on, exposed 
upon the plains, and poorly armed, bo likely to rise agaifist one 
liundred thousand well-armed inhabitants, assisted by all the 
troops within the Department? Such a thought would be a poor 
compliment to the resolution and courage of the people, to say 
nothing of how it reflects upon those in the military service. 
Now, then, when we had faithfully kept all our promises to tbes« 
captive Indians, suppose they should ri^e? This would, then, 



fjive you guod reason to cut the (xordiari knot wliicli has boon so 
dilficult to untie, v;ich one terrible blow, and to wipe the whole 
Navajo nation from the face of the earth. The Navajoes are 
not i'ools, a-nd tliey understand all this as well as ourselves. 

ITave not promises been made that, if they would surrender, 
Tv-e would locate them at the Bosque Redondo and Bosque Grande, 
and feed them there until they can raise enough to support them- 
selves? Now that they have fulfilled their part of the com- 
pact, by surrendering and placing themselves in our power, 
shall v>-e, who claim to be christians, break our faith with these 
pagans, who have conhded in our iiitegrity? Such a thought, 
even, would be the gravest insult that could be offered to the peo- 
ple of NeAV Mexico. 

But, it is said that fi eding Hie A'hvajoes raises the price 
of prrjvisions. The high price of provisions is consecjuent upon 
the great difference between the value of our paper currency and 
the value of gold. Blot every Navajo out of existence to-day, 
and the price of food w^ould hardly be affected. It is true there 
is some scarcity this year, owing to the partial failure of the 
crops. Such an emergency was partly provided for, so far as the 
Navajoes were concerned, by ordering supplies from the States. 
This gave great offense to certain parties, who exclaimed, " why 
bring supplies from the States and not buy from our own pro- 
ducers V" The Chief CoramissarN' then iidvertised for certain 
articles of food, grown here. Then arose the cry, '' if you buy 
here, you raise the price of provisions ! " But it is admitted 
that the price of corn, and wheat, and beans, and fresh meat, has 
risen somevvdiat, from the increased demand. But who gets the 
benefit of these increased prices ? Yourselves, fellow citizens, 
who raise these articles and have them for sale. No other char- 
actor of supplies is affected in price by holding the Navajoes. 
Go into a store to buy a yard of cloth, or a pound oC coffee, or 
a pair of shoes. Is the price now as it used to be? Is the price 
of a load of wood or a load of hay as it used to be ? It is hardly 
worth your while oven to consider such puerile arguments agairist 
liolding the Na,vajoes. Here, now, is a good market at your very 
door I'o]- every pound o!' bi'ead-stuff wjiich you can raise, and every 



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head of stock which you desire to sell, until this people can sup? 
port themselves. It is a new phase in political economy when a 
people object to having a ready market and high prices for the 
fruit of their farms and for the stock from their pastures ; and ho 
would be an intrepid logician who would make the attempt to tax 
your credulity so far as to expect you to believe that, to have this 
ready market and these high prices for all the surplus food you 
can spare, will be your ruin. 

What VLi'd the essential facts vrith reference to this matter? 
Before now^ did not the -pcoj^le of New Mexico clothe and feed 
the Navajoes? A'bw;, this is done by the United States. Can 
you object to this ? AYill you insist upon it that it is better for 
yourselves, again, to do this ? One might suppose you had borno 
this burthen quite long enough. At all events, the Government 
has thought so, and proposes to relieve you of it. If this bo 
well, why think of having it undone? 

The military authorities have labored under many disadvan- 
tages this year, with reference to captive Indians. In the first 
place, it was difficult to get farming tools for them. But, by 
great energy on the part of the staff officers, in causing to be 
raanufactu,rcd in government shops some essential articles, and 
in getting others from long distances, we were enabled, in the 
spring, to have planted, at the Bosque Redondo, nearly three 
thousand acres of. corn. Until the middle of August this im- 
mense field promised to yield abundantly. The corn was so fine 
in color and. so luxuriant in growth as to excite the admiration of 
all Avho saw it. The Indians were justly proud of it. But, after 
the ears had formed, this magnificent field was attacked by the 
Qom fVor?n, improperly called, hy others, the army worm, and 
was totally destroyed ! This was a visitation of God ! No hu- 
man forecast could have prevented it. It is estimated that this 
field, had the corn ripened, would have produced ten millior;s of 
pounds, but for this calamity, vrhich would have been an abun- 
dance to have fed the vrhole tribe for a year. Thus far the Nava- 
joes have borno this terrible loss with fortitude, and h?.ve cheer- 
fully gone to work again to prepare this field and to break up 
Qthejrs for planting next year, when, with the blessing of Provi- 



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ilencc upon their labors, ihej will be placed above ^vant, it i* to 
be hoped, forever. 

New Mexico is eminently a stock growing country. Arizona 
is, and is destined to be for all time, the greatest gold, and silver, 
and copper bearing country ever known. The miners who will bo 
attracted thither, must send to the nearest market for beef and 
mutton, and for coarse woolens. '\Miere is that market? It is 
here with yourselves, fellow citizens. Now, would you do so 
short-sighted a thing as to plant down again upon the great thor- 
oughfare leading hence to this new El Dorado, ten or twelve thou- 
sand Indians, to murder those who would travel to and fro between 
these countries, and to rob from every flock, and herd, and traio 
upon the road? You have too much forecast, and can see too 
brilliant a future looming up for yourselves and your children, to 
permit this to be done, if a voice in the matter i» to be had by 
yourselves. I am sure of it. 

Besides, once the Indians are removed from the open country, 
between the settled portions of Arizona and New Mexico, the 
whole route through to California becomes safe, and the invincible 
laws of climate will eventually force, not only stage lines, but 
railroad lines along that route, which is removed, equally, from 
the frozen regions of the north and the terrible heats of the 
Gila and Yuma Deserts. There are those now amongst you who 
will live to see what is here predicted. Let the Navajo nation 
again be placed upon this line, and you retard the advance of 
your country for an indefinite number of years. This policy, 
which you are expected to sustain, is not for a day but for all 
coming time. And even the feeding of these Indians at the pre- 
sent exhorbitant rates, is cheaper than to fight them. This admits 
of not a single doubt. But as you, fellow citizens, are no longer 
called upon to feed them, this question does not, in reality, con- 
cern you : but is one solely for the consideration of the General 
Government. 

By this policy there is another great point gained by the people 
of New Mexico, which has not been duly appreciated. The Nava- 
joes have for ages been the hereditary enemies of the Comanches 
•ndKiowaya, and it maybe said that, on the Pecos, they become 



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inttTposed as & barrier between the latter Indians an-d the inliabxt- 
ants of this Territorj. There is no danger of Comanche or Ki- 
oway raids while twenty-five hundred Navajo warriors are ofi" upon 
the plains, ninety miles to the east of our settlements. This you 
vrill all admit. 

What I have done, or directed to be dene, in all this matter, 
has been from a sincere desire to promote your interests, and to 
see that the means of the Government placed at my disposal, 
were devoted to insuring the present safety, as well as the future 
and permanent prosperity of yourselves and your descendants. 
I have acted conscientiously, not only towards the people, but to- 
wards the Indians. This matter has commanded my attention^ 
my study, and my anxiety, for nearly two years. To the officers 
and soldiers who carried into practical effect each successive idea 
which commenced and elaborated this policy, is due all the credit 
of accomplishing what to them was a Herculean task. Therefore, 
to them alone who performed the labor, and not to me, you owe 
a debt of lasting gratitude. All I can ask is that you will raise 
no uurcasonable clamors against the important measures which 
have been inaugurated for your own good. Wait patiently and 
hopefully until this great experiment has been thoroughly tested. 

If, within a reasonable time, say four or five years, it prove 
to be a failure, then let some other plan be adopted, such as the 
wisdom of that coming day, with all the lights which will then be 
X'QioTSi it, may determine upon as being fo^* the best. 

JAMES 11. CARLETON» 



Headquarters Department of New Mexico, 
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sept. 6, 1863. 

General : I have the honor to report that I have this ^veek 
sent 51 Navajo Indians, rncn, -women and children, to Fort Suin-' 
ner, at the Bosque Redondo, on the Pecos River, where, as I have' 
before informed you, I have 425 Mescalero Apaches, held' as- 
prisoners. The purpose had in view is to send all captured Nava- 
joes and Apaches to that point, and there to feed and take care 
of them until they have opened farms and becom.e able to support 
themselves, as the Pueblo Indians of New ?.Iexico are doing. 
The ^Yar Department has already approved of this in the case 
of thcxVpaches, and authorized that Fort Sumner should be a chap- 
lain post, so that the chaplain there could educate the Indian chil- 
dren. This year those Indians have been contented and happy. 
They planted, under the direction of their agent and V'."ith a littlo 
help, some large fields of corn, and, now that they have their 
aceqiiia dug, will next year raise quite enough to support them- 
selves. This the Navajoes can be persuaded to do as well. 

At the Bosque Redondo there is arable land enough for all the 
Indians of this family, (the Navajoes and Apaches have descended 
from the same stock and speak the same language,) and I would 
respectfully recommend,' that now the war is vigorously prosecuted 
against the Navajoes, that the only peace that can ever be made 
with them must rest on the basis that they move on to these lands, 
and, like the Pueblos, become an agricultural people, and cease 
to be nomads. This should be a sine, qua nun. As soon as 
the snows of winter admonish them of the suuering to Avhich 
their families will Ije exnosed, I have c:rcat hones of fretting most 
of the tribe. The knowledge of the perfidy of these Navajoes, 
gained after tv>o centuries of experience, is such as to lead us to 
put no faith in their promises. They have no government to 
make treaties. They aic a patriarchal people. One set of fam- 
ilies may make promises, but the other set Avill not heed them. 
They understand the direct application of force as a law. If its 
application be removed, that moment they become la\Yless. This 
has been tried over, and over, and over again, and at great ex- 
pense. The purpose now is, never to relax the application of 



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force with a people that can no more be trusted than you can trust 
the evolves that run through their mountains. To gather them 
together little bj little on to a Reservation, awaj from the haunts, 
and hills, and hiding places of their country, and then be kind to 
them ; there teach their children hoAv to read and write ; teach them 
the arts of peace ; teach thera the truths of christiauity. Soon 
they ^vill acquire new habits, new ideas, new^ modes of life ; the 
old Indians v.ill die ofi' and carry with them all latent lona;ing for 
muudering and robbing ; the young ones v,-ill take their places 
■without these longings ; and thus, little by little, they will be- 
■come a happy and a contented people, and Navajo wars will be 
remembered only as som.ething that belongs entirely to the past. 
Even until they can raise enqugh to be self-sustaining, t/ou can 
feed them cheaper than you can fight thc7n. 

You will observe that the Bosque Redondo is far down the Pe- 
cos, on the open plains, where these Indians can have no lateral 
contact with settlcrc. If the Government will only set apart a 
Reservation of. fort?/ mi Us sqi/ar e , vfiih. Fort Sumner, at the 
Bosque Redondo, in the center, all the goo<l land will be covered, 
ftnd keep the settlers a proper distance from the Indians. See 
the inclosed n)ap. There is no place in the Navajo country fit 
for a Reservation ; and even if there were, it v,ould not be wise 
to have it there ; for. little by little, the Indians would steal away 
into their mountain fastnesses again, and then, as of old, would 
come a ne\v war, and so on, ad infi7iiium. 

I know these views are practical, practicable and humane ; are 
just to the suiicring -people, as well as to the aggressive, periidi- 
cus, butchering iNavajoes. If I can have one more /«// regiment 
of cavalry, and authority to raise one independent company in 
each county in the Territory, they can scon be carried to a final 

result. 

I am, General, respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES II. CARLETON, 
Brigadier General Commanding. 

Brigadier General Lonr.yzo Tjko.ias, 
Adjutant Gemral U. S. ,.d., Washington, D. C 




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